HarnessRouter Community Edition
Open-source unified interface for agent harnesses
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Plug-and-play managed agent harnesses in your product: Codex, Claude Code and Hermes through one API on your infrastructure, now open sourced under Apache 2.0. Switch harnesses without rebuilding your backend. Sessions, streaming, files, artifacts, cancellation, failure recovery, all handled. Model provider keys, state, and deliveries under your control. Gateway, Runner, Console in one Docker container. Ready-to-use starter kit apps as inspiration of possibilities.
PH · launched Aug 16, 2026 · 392 upvotes (top 15%) · 0 views
Niche: ai agent development platforms · 598 launches, 22 in the last 7 days ▼ -29% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
- API
- Developer Tools
- Artificial Intelligence
- GitHub
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Could you build this?
Yes The project wraps external agent CLI binaries and harness APIs into a unified local Docker container providing an HTTP/WebSocket gateway with standardized JSON schemas.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 756 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #197 of 757 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 271 days after the earliest competitor.
- HarnessRouter: Unified interface for agent harnesses · hn · 2026-08-17 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.78
- Harness by Autonomous · ph · 2026-10-16 · 330 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- HarnessRouter: Open-Sourcing the World’s First Unified Interface for Agent Harnesses and the Unified Harness Protocol · yc · 2026-08-17 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- HarnessRouter: Bring the World's Best AI Agents Into Your App, With One API · yc · 2026-07-23 · 29 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- I built an open source multi-agent harness in Go · hn · 2026-04-08 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- OpenAI Agents API · ph · 2026-09-15 · 143 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- DigitalOcean Managed Agents · ph · 2026-10-18 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- agent-harness · ph · 2026-09-10 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.54
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